Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the witnesses who are joining us for this first hour of the meeting.
My first questions are for Ms. McMartin.
Ms. McMartin, you mentioned that your university has expertise, including in health programs, but that the inability to access funding particularly hinders the improvement of various programs, as well as your university's research activities.
We know the striking data on funding, according to which 90% of the funding that goes to the Canadian Institute for Health Research is distributed to the 15 largest universities in Canada. So we can agree that only crumbs are left for the other universities.
I would like to hear your opinion on that data.
I would also like you to tell me about your ability to develop being compromised owing to a lack of access to equitable funding, which you mentioned in your presentation.